Chapter 14: The Steel of Grace

In the hall of the temple, several monks pushed wooden wheeled carts to distribute water and burnt wheat balls among the crowd.

Vivian, whose eyes were red and swollen from crying, and her face was stained with tears, made a skirt salute to the monk, took the water and roasted wheat balls from the other party's hands, and after taking a sip of water, she lowered her head and bit a small piece of roasted wheat balls into her mouth and chewed a few bites, and the tears suddenly fell down one by one, dripping on the roasted wheat balls in her hands. After such a long time, the priests and mages in the door have not come out, and everyone's emotions are becoming more and more depressed, and a few people who have seen Egg's injury with their own eyes are the most depressed, the terrible wound on the waist, and the dense and terrifying steel shuttle arrows on the body, so that they really can't hope in their hearts.

At this moment, the wooden door was pushed open with a "creak", everyone stopped moving, looked at the wooden door, and several priests and mages rushed out of the door, everyone looked silent and exhausted.

"Master Giroud!" Orin stepped forward to look at Giroud.

"Lord Viscount. Giroud was pale and his voice was weak.

"How's Knight Egger?" Orin asked, a little nervous.

Giroud shook his head and said: "The injury on the waist is too serious, just to stitch up the injury on the waist, I used up more than half of the Norkentin thinner, the bow and arrow on the body were sawed off, five were removed, and the wound was also stitched." There was only one Wizard of Water Magic in Caroston, but it was only a beginner, so the mana was almost exhausted, so everyone did their best. After saying this, he sighed deeply and stopped speaking.

Several people around also heard Giroud's words, and pulled out five steel shuttle arrows, meaning there were six more.

"Woo woo, woo woo~" Vivian couldn't bear it anymore, she cried, and her hands were tightly covered on her face, in disbelief.

Soon, the crowd in the hall knew about the situation. The grief was quickly transmitted, and everyone outside the temple knew about the situation, and the cries began to spread one by one, two, three, and finally the grief became a cry, and some of the civilians who had received the favor of Knight Egger, men and women, young and old, wept gloomily.

There are also some people who are on the road and are about to arrive at the temple, and after hearing the news, the river stone in their hands fell to the ground with a "click".

At the entrance of the temple, the carriage stopped in a small cry, Li Xuan got out of the carriage, there was a lot of shock and respect in his heart, there were almost thousands of civilians he saw along the way, and the closer he got to the temple, the more people wept like this.

Raise your feet and walk towards the temple, there are many stone piles at the entrance of the temple, and when he walked to the largest stone pile, Li Xuan bent down and put the river stone in his hand on it, and then slowly stood up and walked inside.

The temple is a huge white stone building, each white stone is not very smooth, there are some rough line patterns carved outside, the three steps up are huge round white stone pillars, firmly supporting the whole firmament, the number of stone pillars is very large, evenly distributed, the whole temple hall is majestic and atmospheric, all kinds of people are scattered in the hall, or sitting, or squatting, or standing, there is a row of people sitting in the corner of the stone wall, a group of people standing in front of a closed wooden door, the crowd in the hall is muttering like talking and like praying.

Li Xuan saw Orin and the others, Vivien's eyes were red and swollen, her eyes were blankly leaning on Mrs. Mandy's arms, Mrs. Mandy's expression was sad, her eyes were also red, and there were several men in the crowd who Li Xuan didn't know were talking to Orin in a whisper.

"Viscount Orin, Lady Mandy!" Li Xuan stepped forward, and only spoke up from a distance of about two meters.

Olin looked up and saw Li Xuan, he was stunned for a moment, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he immediately dimmed again, and said, "Your Excellency Li Xuan." ”

Mrs. Mandy, who was holding Vivian, looked at Li Xuan and nodded slightly: "Your Excellency Li Xuan." Vivian, your teacher is here. As he spoke, he wiped her face with a handkerchief.

It took a while for Vivian to come back to her senses, looked at Li Xuan, came out of Mrs. Mandy's arms, made a skirt salute, and said two words hoarsely: "Teacher." ”

Li Xuan nodded at her.

Suddenly, as if grasping a life-saving straw, Vivian walked over in two steps, grabbed Li Xuan's left hand and said, "Teacher, please save Uncle Egger, I know, you will definitely be able to save Uncle Egger." ”

Before Vivien's words fell, everyone looked up at Li Xuan.

"Please, teacher, save Uncle Egger, please, teacher. Vivien grabbed Li Xuan's hand and pleaded.

Orin immediately walked over and scolded, "Vivian, let go of Mr. Li Xuan!"

"Teacher, please save Uncle Egger, only you can save him now. Vivien let go of her hand, crying and begging Lady Lee Mandy to take her from behind.

Many in the hall looked over, and everyone heard Vivien's cries.

Olin looked at Li Xuan and said, "Vivian has been spoiled since she was a child, please forgive Her Excellency Li Xuan for her faux pas." ”

Li Xuan waved his hand, and Orin continued with a gloomy expression: "Egger's injury is very serious, and he has used up all the Norkentin thinner, but it is still not enough, and the wound is very big. ”

Li Xuan looked at Orin, then turned his head to look around at the crowd looking at him with a look of hope, and said with a deep groan: "I have heard some deeds of Knight Egger, he is a respectable knight, if there is anything I can help with, I am willing to try it." ”

After Li Xuan's words were finished, a noisy exchange began to be heard in the crowd.

After listening to this, Orin walked to the door, lifted the clasp on the doorknob, and knocked on the wooden door.

"Knock knock. ”

The door was quickly pushed open, and a priest came out, saw Orin, and bowed.

Olin gestured to Li Xuan with his palm and said, "This is Your Excellency Li Xuan, he can help." ”

"Okay, please come in. The pastor said politely, and after inviting Li Xuan in, he quickly closed the door.

Along the border, under a leeward hillside.

Piles of bonfires burned vigorously, and from time to time there were one or two soft "crackling" sounds.

The "Red Wing Knight" Bobilis Lot next to the campfire was in a terrible mood at the moment, and the ambush in the afternoon could have left the other party's knight Egger, but he was escaped by the other party. He was dissatisfied and puzzled by the "Gentleman's Steel" Shiren Wozelch who stopped the pursuit, and he was even more angry when he didn't get a response to his several inquiries, and another thing that made him very angry was that his side actually ambushed fifty marksmen, as the monitoring knight of this operation, he didn't even know about this matter in advance.

The more he thought about it, the more unhappy Bobilis became, looking at Helen's gaze getting colder and colder, and after secretly making up his mind, he slowly stood up, held the hilt of his sword and walked towards the campfire where Heren was.

"Knight Hiron!" said Bobilis, standing in front of the fire.

The crowd at the fire looked at Bobilis.

"Could you please explain why you let Egger Previa go today? Bobilis looked sharply at "Gun'en" Shiren Wozelch.

Hiren stopped talking in a whisper to the bystander, looked up at him, and turned back to the man and said, "Stay safe." The latter nodded and walked away.

Hillen looked at Bobilis, still not answering.

The anger accumulated by the ignored Bobilis exploded instantly, and he shouted angrily: "Shiren Wozelch!"

Everyone looked at this side, and several of Bobilis' henchmen immediately stood up and walked behind Pobilis.

Hillen's face sank, and he looked at Pobilis with cold eyes, and several people around him also looked at Pobilis and the others with unkind faces.

"Where are we? Mr. Lot!" asked Hillen, faintly.

"I'm asking you why you let Iger go. Bobilis asked again.

"Again, I ask you, where are we? Mr. Lot. Sheren was indifferent.

"What do you want to say?" Bobilis was furious when he heard Hillen's flat tone.

"Where are we, Mr. Lot!" asked Hillen, his tone still flat.

"I don't know, underneath some hill in Carroston. What does this have to do with you letting Iger go?"

"Some hill in Carroston, it turns out he remembers where we are. Hillen laughed and teased the crowd around the fire, and everyone cooperated and laughed.

"Star!" Bobilis drew his sword and looked at Hiren viciously.

The sound of the sword being drawn made everyone in the camp stand up, and they all noticed the movement on Bobilis' side.

Hillen didn't react to this, took a bunch of rabbit meat from the shelf above the campfire, looked through it, tore off a piece with his hand, looked at Bobilis before stuffing it into his mouth, and asked, "Do you know how many soldiers are stationed on the Carroston border in total?"

Bobilis, who was holding the sword, was apparently unaware of the question raised by Hilenty, or rather did not know it exhaustively.

Seeing that Bobilis couldn't answer, Hillen chewed on the rabbit meat and said, "One thousand halberd soldiers, six hundred silver-armored marksmen, three hundred great sword crusaders, and fifty cavalry, three junior mages, and one intermediate mage." After finishing speaking, he swallowed the rabbit meat in his mouth, picked up the lamb belly wine sac and poured two large sips of ale wine and burped.

He looked at Bobilis again and said lightly, "Do you understand?"

Bobilis suddenly realizes that he has made a serious mistake, which has been started since the first time he received the news of the ambush knight Egger, and he has fallen into a blind spot thinking about the knight Egger who had defeated and almost captured him alive.

His party was fully armed, and Egger's cavalry were lightly armed, the first charge, to wait for work, and it was a downhill charge that the other party was difficult to escape, so he could only hit hard, and the second charge launched after turning the horse's head was because the other party did not dare to turn over the hillside to bet on whether there was an ambush behind the hillside, so he could only turn around and kill the road when he came and went, so that there was a glimmer of life. The reason why Hillen blocked the pursuit was also very simple, first, if he came to pursue, he would have to go deep into the hinterland of Carroston, and secondly, Hillen had prepared a backhand, fifty marksmen.

After thinking about this, Bobby Liston began to regret his impulses.

At this time, Hillen stood up and asked him again, "Do you understand?"

Bobilis nodded awkwardly.

"Good. ”

After saying that, Hillen slammed a right hook with his right hand into Bobilis' right cheek, saying, "This punch is for you to attack without permission today." ”

Before Bobilis could stand firm, a hook from his left hand hit him on the left side of the face, saying, "This punch is for you to question my order." ”

Then another punch hit Bobilis in the face and said, "This punch is because you drew your sword in front of me." ”

When Bobilis finally reacted, Hiren had already kicked him in the stomach, and Bobilis only felt a sharp pain in his stomach, and the whole person was kicked away, and he fell to the ground, his ears, face, and nose were full of blood, and he couldn't open his eyes in pain.

"This last kick, well, let me think about the reason, it seems that there is no reason, I just want to kick you. Helen stopped looking at him, returned to the campfire, untied the bloody steel gloves on his hand, handed it to a man next to him, and said, "Take it and wash it, dry it and give it to me." ”